A Glance Into India: Varanasi and Sarnath
“Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.” – Mark Twain Varanasi — known as Benares during Mark Twain’s time — is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, going back perhaps 5000 years. The city attracts people from all over India and the world to enter its holy river, to pray, to search for meaning, to…